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Three Chechen women double-crossed ISIS terrorists, hornswoggling a small sum of cash out of the extremist militant group by posing as prospective jihadi brides – but now face six years behind bars for committing an online crime. Despite the...

Lottery worker Eddie Tipton saw his luck run out. They say all you need is a dollar and a dream; Tipton had a dream – and (almost had) $16 million dollars – but now faces ten years hard time for gaming the Multi-State Lottery...

Mr. Eddie Tipton of Norwalk, a former lottery official, has been found guilty by a jury on two separate counts of fraud. The 52-year-old man is accused of attempting to rig the hot lotto and win big — literally millions of dollars —...

Now we’re asking the right questions! Sometimes us tax professionals forget about all of the head-scratching and book-learning that got us to where we are. Long story short, taxes are complicated. I’d even argue that there’s...

Fear of falling victim ofcredit cardfraud has replaced terrorism as one of the things Americans are most afraid of, according to USA Today. As online shopping becomes more and more popular, the threat of credit card fraud gets bigger and bigger....

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch has started off as the new Attorney General of the United States with an enormous medical fraud case. Fox Business Network reported on June 19, 2015, the U.S. feds have announced the largest ever criminal medical...

Rachel Dolezal is the president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP. She has been passing herself off as a black woman. On Thursday, however, her parents – Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal - say that their daughter has been deceiving...

A former bank president admitted to committing fraud with regulating reports and over estimating bank assets in a San Antonio courtroom Tuesday.Laurie Mayfield, 54, a resident of Fredericksburg, TX told the court, presided by U.S. Magistrate Judge...

“Denny Hastert is on the phone from Peru! Who wants to talk to him?”An editor made this proclamation one afternoon in late-May 1997, in the newsroom of The Beacon News in Aurora. Because the Beacon’s sister paper, The Courier...

In late May, 2015, Royce Mathew, an Altamonte Springs, Florida, resident, filed a complaint with his local FBI office regarding alleged fraud and corruption perpetrated by the Walt Disney Company upon him and the other shareholders in that...

People worldwide who have donated money to cancer charities are still reeling from the fact that they were duped. Their sympathies were played upon by embezzlers who took advantage of the fear and horror that is connected with this devastating...

Many Americans are generous and regularly donate money to charities. Organizations requesting funds for cancer are at the top of the list for many. It is common knowledge that some charities apportion a greater amount of the funds to charity and...

A Tennessee family is accused of bilking the public states out of $187 million dollars it donated to various cancer charities they set up throughout several states including the Children’s Cancer Fund of America in Powell, TN, and Cancer...

Today we don our tinfoil hat to look at the issue of climate change. While climate change, previously referred as global warming, isn’t usually considered a conspiracy theory, it does share many conspiracy characteristics.One obvious...

There is no reason for the Veterans Administration at all. The required outcome is for veterans to have healthcare coverage that they earned for life. As a part of their contract for having risked their lives in service of their country, the...